 Yatta-Ta of Ir Anis.
Yatta-Ta is a Kivalian from the backwater region of
Ir-Anis. Literally no one in Erogenia or Kivalia has ever heard
of him, though he has declared that he is the finest swordsman in all
of Kivalia. To prove that, he intends to beat Zona in single
combat and meet her famous "challenge." It is unknown whether he
made up that challenge, or whether he's confusing it with some R.E.
Howard-style heroine, but he's not exactly connected to reality.
It's also unknown whether he is agood swordsman or not, since Zona has,
so far, simply decked him for being annoying.
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Tula
Uthic-Ipola
Daughter of Ipola, Queen of the Moon Tribe and King Uthic of the Wolf
Tribe
Tula is Zona's sister and closest friend. Though younger than
Zona by
four years, Tula is the level-headed and wiser member of the two,
and
is generally acknowledged, without rancor or jealousy, as being the
"smart one." She has always been more interested in books,
languages
and the mystic arts, while Zona's talents naturally took her to the way
of the warrior. Together they are incredibly formidable and have
shared many adventures. They are half-sisters, children of
different
fathers, though that is unimportant both to their status as princesses
and to their close relationship. Tula's father Uthic has
acknowledged
her, (the concept of "illegitimacy" not being at all the same as it is
in other cultures) and though he has chosen another child to be his
successor, both he and Ipola recognize that this young Moon princess
has a very important future. She took her vows as a priestess of
the
Moon two months ago, a full five years before what is generally
customary. She throws a mean spell, and she looks damn good while
doing it, too.
In her early teens, she stayed in Normos and studied languages, magick
and history there for two years as a guest of the Kivalian court.
At
that time the young prince Maldik became desperately enamored of her,
much to her embarassment. The fact that he survived with only
minor
injuries is a testament to her restraint, and her respect for the laws
of hospitality.
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 Prince Maldik of Normos
His Royal Highness Prince Maldik is a childish., selfish, grasping,
cowardly, short-sighted and generally loathsome individual. In
other words, he's a typical example of Kivalian royalty, with the
unfortunate exception that he's also not terribly clever.
He knows Zona from her infrequent visits to Normos, and would love it
if she met a violent end at someone else's hands. Zona wishes she
could crush him like an insect, but she knows that Queen Ipola wouldn't
approve. At one point, years ago, the ruling house of Normos
actually proposed a marriage alliance between Maldik and Zona.
Queen Ipola politely refused, saying bluntly that she loved her
daughter too much to force such a match on her, and that in any case,
she could not guarantee the prince's physical safety, not only on the
wedding night, but at the ceremony itself.
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 Queen Yanora of Normos
Her Majesty Queen Yanora is easily the
most
formidable person in Kivalia. She has lived her entire life in
mortal
peril from one political plot or another, and has not only survived but
prospered. Sensual, calculating and, when necessary, absolutely
ruthless, she has loved only two things completely in her entire
life: Kivalia, and King Kendrik of Normos. Their marriage
was
passionate and tempestuous, and there is a rumor that, in a fit of
jealousy, she poisoned the king, who perished from a mysterious
malady. Yanora allows this rumor to continue, if only because it
keeps her sons King Gudik and Prince Maldik in a certain amount of
justifiable fear of the consequences of crossing their mother.
She respects Ipola and the Erogenians, and frankly admires their
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 Count Tethik of Dell
Tethik is a nobleman of high degree as well as high intelligence,
which he never hesitates to remind his royal cousins, King Gudik and
Prince Maldik, are the two reasons they will never be rid of him.
His family is from southern Kivalia, and is actually older than the
ruling house. At one point, at the death of the old king, some of
the house of Dell even wanted him to make a play for the throne, but he
flatly refused, saying that the throne is no place for a man with any
integrity. Tethik is a realist who plays politics well, but
secretly nurtures a desire for the days of true chivalry and
honor. He likes and respects the tribe of the Moon, and was
one of those who recognized that they were stronger with the Erogenians
as allies than as enemies.
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The
Urtts
The Urtt races are a species
of humanoid
mammal-like reptiles that inhabit territories to the Southwest of
Erogenia. They are brutal, cunning, strong and regard the
mammalian sentients of their world as just another resource to be
exploited. They have a long history of capturing, breeding and
enslaving Erogenians and Kivalians alike for the express purpose of
providing meat and brute labor. Don't waste any sympathy on these
guys, they are 100% pure evil, every single one of them.
Erogenians do not hesitate to kill them on sight, since they have been
a frequent and favored target of the Urtt raids.
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Erogenian Hunting
Cats
 This sturdy
Erogenian cousin of the smilodon is the domestic companion of choice in
most of the Erogenian tribes. Ranging from 175-250 lbs on average, the
hunting cat in the wild are pride cats, highly social and gregarious.
Erogenians have been domesticating them for thousands of
years. They are extremely intelligent and loyal, affectionate and
lethal hunting companions. They are highly useful as protectors
of the young and very old, and most families have at least
one. Zona and Tula's personal hunting cats for some years
are Jewel, an older blue-eyed female and Moonfang, a tan male with
golden eyes and particularly long tusks of which he appears to be
inordinately vain. He and Jewel sometimes seem to quarrel, but
either of the two would willingly die for their human family or for
each other.
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Vito
Vito is, like Mentl, originally from Earth. Unlike Mentl, Vito is
dead. Vito is an enchanter of major magnitude, and was to be
Mentl's master, mentor and teacher in Magick. Unfortunately, some
"assholes from the Deeps dressed as muggers" attacked immediately
before Vito could make the fateful meeting with his would-be
apprentice. His last act on Earth was to
vaporize his attackers and leave the unexplained "Magickal Book" for
Mentl to find, facilitating Mentl's transposition to Erogenia.
He's since appeared infrequently, appearing as best he can on the prime
material plane of Erogenia and has, at last, made substantial contact
with Mentl, imparting some partial explanation and the only instruction
on the basics of magick that Mentl has had. The rest
of the time he lounges in the Otherwhen, in between life and death,
bored and watching reruns and old movies in his apartment.
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Ginsha, the
Half-Urtt woman
The Urr-Naitt, or Urtt-human hybrid, are extremely rare, and even rarer
is to see one grow to more or less healthy adulthood. Only a few
dozen exist in the world, and Ginsha was one such. The result of
a forced liason between her slave mother and an Urtt slaveholder,
Ginsha was desperate to rise above the nonentity that she suffered from
both the slave human and Urtt societies of the Urtt empire. She
eagerly volunteered to lure the Erogenians into a trap, and was
rewarded by being elevated to non-slave status. Mentl, in
escaping, cast a brutal enchantment on her and was forced to beat her
savagely in order to subdue her. She was left for dead.
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Gorshash, the
Urtt Priest of Shuach
Gorshash is , as Vito described him, "The most
dangerous thing in this dimension - a smart Urtt." Highly
intelligent, ambitious and completely ruthless, Gorshash's main
weakness is also his greatest strength: An insatiable curiosity and
desire for knowledge. His dream is to completely subjugate
all human empires and spread the Urtt influence over the whole
continent. To that end, he has studied histories and grimoires
thousands of years old and has uncovered long-dead secrets of the
ancient Erogenian Empire and its bloodthirsty god, Shuach.
His curiosity and overconfidence has cost him dearly, as he suffered a
humiliating and completely unexpected personal defeat at Tula's
hands. Among all those in the world, he now hates her the most
completely.
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